Reading Maya Art

Author : Andrea Stone,Marc Zender
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2011-03-29
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780500051689

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Reading Maya Art by Andrea Stone,Marc Zender Pdf

Lavishly illustrated, fully cross-referenced and indexed: an invaluable book for anyone wishing to see and understand Maya art through the eyes of ancient scribes and artists. The art of the ancient Maya may be considered their most singular cultural achievement. Yet despite a surge of popular interest in these remarkable people, few are fully aware of the richness of their artistic legacy, unique in all of pre-Columbian America. Maya art is a rare combination of linear elegance and naturalism blended with dazzling symbolic complexity. Decorated objects, ranging from painted vases and carved jade and shell ornaments to towering stone monuments and building facades, bear the traces of a symbol system that, while fascinating, can make an understanding of these images elusive to the uninitiated. Presented here for the first time is a compendium of one hundred hieroglyphs that are also the building blocks of ancient Maya painting and sculpture. Organized thematically, the symbols touch on many facets of the Maya world, from the natural environment—animals, plants, the heavens—to the mental landscape of gods, myths, and rituals. Using hundreds of line drawings and photographs, Andrea Stone and Marc Zender show how to identify these signs, understand their meaning, and appreciate the novel ways they appear in art. In addition to providing a basic introduction, the authors also offer many new and exciting interpretations.

Author : Jorge Gutierrez
Publisher : Dark Horse Comics
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2022-01-11
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781506725963

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The Art of Maya and the Three by Jorge Gutierrez Pdf

A vibrant, oversized hardcover showcasing the concept and production art from the beautiful Netflix series by visionary animator and filmmaker, Jorge R. Gutierrez. Meet Maya, the eagle-warrior princess and all the dazzling characters that breathe life into lush and detailed landscapes magically inspired by Mesoamerican, Incan, and Caribbean cultures. Behold the original vision for the series taken from early sketches to final animated wonders, with detailed storyboards, color scripts, and in-depth, bilingual (English and Spanish) commentary. Welcome to the vivid world of Maya and the Three! Bilingual Captions in English and Spanish.

Author : Mary Ellen Miller,Megan E O'neil
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2014-06-17
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780500204221

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Maya Art and Architecture by Mary Ellen Miller,Megan E O'neil Pdf

“In addition to serving as an introduction to Maya art, the book communicates enthusiasm for the art’s aesthetic power and grace.” —Choice Rewritten and updated to include the discoveries and new theories from the past decade and a half, this classic guide to the art of the ancient Maya is now illustrated in color throughout. World expert Mary Miller and her co-author Megan O’Neil take the reader through the visual world of the Maya, explaining how and why they created the paintings, sculpture, and monuments that intrigue and compel people the world over. With an array of new material, including the newly found La Corona panels, Waka’ figurines, and the Dz’ibanche’ staircase; studies of the monuments at Palenque, Zotz, and elsewhere; and paintings discovered in recent years; this new edition will be essential reading for students and scholars—and for travelers to the cities of this mysterious civilization.

Author : Michael D. Coe,Mark Van Stone
Publisher : Thames & Hudson
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2005-06-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9780500773338

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Reading the Maya Glyphs (Second Edition) by Michael D. Coe,Mark Van Stone Pdf

The breaking of the Maya code has completely changed our knowledge of this ancient civilization, and has revealed the Maya people's long and vivid history. Decipherment of Maya hieroglyphic writing has progressed to the point where most Maya written texts—whether inscribed on monuments, written in the codices, or painted or incised on ceramics—can now be read with confidence. In this practical guide, first published in 2001, Michael D. Coe, the noted Mayanist, and Mark Van Stone, an accomplished calligrapher, have made the difficult, often mysterious script accessible to the nonspecialist. They decipher real Maya texts, and the transcriptions include a picture of the glyph, the pronunciation, the Maya words in Roman type, and the translation into English. For the second edition, the authors have taken the latest research and breakthroughs into account, adding glyphs, updating captions, and reinterpreting or expanding upon earlier decipherments. After an introductory discussion of Maya culture and history and the nature of the Maya script, the authors introduce the glyphs in a series of chapters that elaborate on topics such as the intricate calendar, warfare, royal lives and rituals, politics, dynastic names, ceramics, relationships, and the supernatural world. The book includes illustrations of historic texts, a syllabary, a lexicon, and translation exercises.

Author : Michael Coe,Justin Kerr
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1998-02
Category : Art
ISBN : UOM:39015080730370

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Art of the Maya Scribe by Michael Coe,Justin Kerr Pdf

To the four great calligraphic traditions - ancient Egyptian, East Asian, Islamic, and western European - is now added a fifth: that of the ancient Maya. Long known but little understood, Maya writing has now largely been deciphered, leading to a new understanding of the Maya scribes and the society in which they lived. This volume is the first to make full use of the latest research and the first to consider Maya writing both aesthetically and in terms of its meaning. Michael D. Coe begins by examining the origins and character of the script. He then explores the world of the scribes and "keepers of the holy books, " decoding their depiction in Maya art and describing the mediums in which they worked, their tools, and techniques.

Author : Oswaldo Chinchilla Mazariegos
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2017-04-25
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780300207170

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Art and Myth of the Ancient Maya by Oswaldo Chinchilla Mazariegos Pdf

Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Note on Translations and Orthography -- Introduction -- 1 Image and Text -- 2 Pictorial and Textual Sources -- 3 Mesoamerican Cosmogony -- 4 The Maiden -- 5 The Grandmother -- 6 The Sun's Opponents -- 7 The Sun -- 8 The Perfect Youth -- 9 The Father -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Illustration Credits -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Y -- Z

Author : Matthew G. Looper
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 520 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2009-06-23
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780292778177

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Lightning Warrior by Matthew G. Looper Pdf

The ancient Maya city of Quirigua occupied a crossroads between Copan in the southeastern Maya highlands and the major centers of the Peten heartland. Though always a relatively small city, Quirigua stands out because of its public monuments, which were some of the greatest achievements of Classic Maya civilization. Impressive not only for their colossal size, high sculptural quality, and eloquent hieroglyphic texts, the sculptures of Quirigua are also one of the few complete, in situ series of Maya monuments anywhere, which makes them a crucial source of information about ancient Maya spirituality and political practice within a specific historical context. Using epigraphic, iconographic, and stylistic analyses, this study explores the integrated political-religious meanings of Quirigua's monumental sculptures during the eighth-century A.D. reign of the city's most famous ruler, K'ak' Tiliw. In particular, Matthew Looper focuses on the role of stelae and other sculpture in representing the persona of the ruler not only as a political authority but also as a manifestation of various supernatural entities with whom he was associated through ritual performance. By tracing this sculptural program from its Early Classic beginnings through the reigns of K'ak' Tiliw and his successors, and also by linking it to practices at Copan, Looper offers important new insights into the politico-religious history of Quirigua and its ties to other Classic Maya centers, the role of kingship in Maya society, and the development of Maya art.

Author : Carla McKinney Brenner
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 20 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Central America
ISBN : UTEXAS:059173014537720

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Courtly Art of the Ancient Maya by Carla McKinney Brenner Pdf

Author : Tiffany D. Creegan Miller
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2022-05-24
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780816542352

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The Maya Art of Speaking Writing by Tiffany D. Creegan Miller Pdf

Challenging the distinctions between “old” and “new” media and narratives about the deprecation of orality in favor of inscribed forms, The Maya Art of Speaking Writing draws from Maya concepts of tz’ib’ (recorded knowledge) and tzij, choloj, and ch’owen (orality) to look at expressive work across media and languages. Based on nearly a decade of fieldwork in the Guatemalan highlands, Tiffany D. Creegan Miller discusses images that are sonic, pictorial, gestural, and alphabetic. She reveals various forms of creativity and agency that are woven through a rich media landscape in Indigenous Guatemala, as well as Maya diasporas in Mexico and the United States. Miller discusses how technologies of inscription and their mediations are shaped by human editors, translators, communities, and audiences, as well as by voices from the natural world. These texts push back not just on linear and compartmentalized Western notions of media but also on the idea of the singular author, creator, scholar, or artist removed from their environment. The persistence of orality and the interweaving of media forms combine to offer a challenge to audiences to participate in decolonial actions through language preservation. The Maya Art of Speaking Writing calls for centering Indigenous epistemologies by doing research in and through Indigenous languages as we engage in debates surrounding Indigenous literatures, anthropology, decoloniality, media studies, orality, and the digital humanities.

Author : Herbert Joseph Spinden
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1975-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0486212351

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A Study of Maya Art, Its Subject Matter and Historical Development by Herbert Joseph Spinden Pdf

Landmark classic interprets Maya symbolism, estimates styles, covers ceramics, architecture, murals, stone carvings as art forms. Over 750 illustrations.

Author : Paul M. Worley,Rita M. Palacios
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780816534272

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Unwriting Maya Literature by Paul M. Worley,Rita M. Palacios Pdf

"This volume provides a decolonial framework for reading Maya and Indigenous texts"--Provided by publisher.

Author : Sylvanus Griswold Morley,Robert J. Sharer
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 940 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0804721300

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The Ancient Maya by Sylvanus Griswold Morley,Robert J. Sharer Pdf

"Comprehensive synthesis of ancient Maya scholarship. Extensive summary of the archaeology of the Maya world provides the historical context for a detailed topical synthesis of chronological and geographic variability within the Maya cultural tradition"--

Author : Stephen Houston
Publisher : Getty Publications
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2021-12-28
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781606067451

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A Maya Universe in Stone by Stephen Houston Pdf

The first study devoted to a single sculptor in ancient America, as understood through four unprovenanced masterworks traced to a small sector of Guatemala. In 1950, Dana Lamb, an explorer of some notoriety, stumbled on a Maya ruin in the tropical forests of northern Guatemala. Lamb failed to record the location of the site he called Laxtunich, turning his find into the mystery at the center of this book. The lintels he discovered there, long since looted, are probably of a set with two others that are among the masterworks of Maya sculpture from the Classic period. Using fieldwork, physical evidence, and Lamb’s expedition notes, the authors identify a small area with archaeological sites where the carvings were likely produced. Remarkably, the vividly colored lintels, replete with dynastic and cosmic information, can be assigned to a carver, Mayuy, who sculpted his name on two of them. To an extent nearly unique in ancient America, Mayuy can be studied over time as his style developed and his artistic ambition grew. An in-depth analysis of Laxtunich Lintel 1 examines how Mayuy grafted celestial, seasonal, and divine identities onto a local magnate and his overlord from the kingdom of Yaxchilan, Mexico. This volume contextualizes the lintels and points the way to their reprovenancing and, as an ultimate aim, repatriation to Guatemala.

Author : Allen J. Christenson
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2010-06-28
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780292789838

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Art and Society in a Highland Maya Community by Allen J. Christenson Pdf

A study of a major piece of modern Mayan religious art.

Author : David Drew
Publisher : Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2015-11-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781474603300

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The Lost Chronicles Of The Maya Kings by David Drew Pdf

A fascinating history of the Maya - drawing on a wealth of recent archaeological discoveries - whose civilisation in the jungles of Central America was for almost a thousand years hidden from the world. Over the last two centuries explorers have made the most remarkable discoveries in the tropical forests of Central America. Across much of present-day Mexico, Guatemala, Belize and Honduras dozens of cities - some with populations of well over 100,000 - have been unveiled, and every year fresh reports emerge of the findings of unknown Maya ruins - great temples, palaces, towering stone pyramids and the tombs of the Maya kings. What these spectacular discoveries indicate is the former presence of an exceptionally advanced, sophisticated and complex society. Recently, major developments made in the decipherment of Maya hieroglyphics have revealed that alongside the material achievements of the Maya ran intellectual accomplishments in astronomy, maths and calendrics, seemingly tied to the complexities of Maya religion, that were remarkable for a society technically in the Stone Age. From reliefs on temple walls, from magnificent hieroglyphic stairways and from stone stelae planted by Maya rulers in the plazas of their cities, has come written history: the Chronicles of the Maya Kings. David Drew looks at why they constructed their cities in the hostile setting of the jungle, the exact age of their ruins, the strange human images depicted in elaborate costume at so many Maya sites, and he asks why at the time of the Spanish conquest, all knowledge of the Mayas had been lost.